| | 117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53) |
| | 378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328) |
| | 803 - Byzantine Empress Irene |
| | 1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079) |
| | 1173 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin |
| | 1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216) |
| | 1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470) |
| | 1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558) |
| | 1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577) |
| | 1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678) |
| | 1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673) |
| | 1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787) |
| | 1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810) |
| | 1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857) |
| | 1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891) |
| | 1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881) |
| | 1945 - Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917) |
| | 1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877) |
| | 1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933) |
| | 1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943) |
| | 1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936) |
| | 1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933) |
| | 1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943) |
| | 1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)) |
| | 1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906) |
| | 1979 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903) |
| | 1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player (b. 1927) |
| | 1988 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905) |
| | 1995 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942) |
| | 1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907) |
| | 1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politican (b. 1910) |
| | 2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953) |
| | 2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist |
| | 2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945) |
| | 2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973) |
| | 2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935) |
| | 2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Philip E. High, Science fiction author (b. 1914) |